WEBVTT Kind: captions; Language: en 00:00:27.000 --> 00:00:32.001 Very early in the morning, the rooster sends out his call and the chickens begin 00:00:32.001 --> 00:00:43.000 to wake. They have been sleeping on their roosts, holding with their toes. Wake 00:00:43.000 --> 00:00:52.001 up chickens. It is daytime. The chickens jump and fly from their roosts. First 00:00:52.001 --> 00:00:59.001 the rooster and then the hen. They are white leghorn chickens wide awake now and 00:00:59.001 --> 00:01:08.000 waiting for breakfast. Here comes farmer Brown bringing grain for the chicken. He 00:01:08.000 --> 00:01:14.001 opens the door and scatters the grain about. The hens begin to pick it up at 00:01:14.001 --> 00:01:22.000 once, but the rooster calls the hen to share his grain. The rooster is larger 00:01:22.000 --> 00:01:29.001 than the hen. He has a big red comb on his head and long curly tail feathers. 00:01:32.000 --> 00:01:37.001 Chickens pick up the grain with their sharp beaks. Chickens have no teeth, so 00:01:37.001 --> 00:01:45.001 they swallow their food whole. But chickens also eat gravel and grit, which help 00:01:45.001 --> 00:01:59.001 grind up the hard food in their She takes a beak full of water and lifts up her 00:01:59.001 --> 00:02:08.000 head so the water can run down her throat. The chickens eyes are on the sides of 00:02:08.000 --> 00:02:17.000 its head. This hen looks at us first with one eye and then with the other. In the 00:02:17.000 --> 00:02:23.000 chicken brooder house nearby are kept the baby chicks only two days old and hear 00:02:23.000 --> 00:02:29.000 them peep. The baby chicks keep dry and warm here near a stove 00:02:29.000 --> 00:02:31.000 covered with a broad metal hood. 00:02:32.001 --> 00:02:37.000 Little chicks are always hungry, so the farmer always keeps chick food in their 00:02:37.000 --> 00:02:43.001 food trough. Shall we see 00:02:43.001 --> 00:02:45.001 where little chicks come from? 00:02:49.000 --> 00:02:55.000 The farmer's boy carefully gathers the freshly laid eggs from the nests where the 00:02:55.000 --> 00:03:02.000 hens laid them. Later farmer Brown puts the eggs 00:03:02.000 --> 00:03:09.000 into a chest of drawers called an incubator. Inside the 00:03:09.000 --> 00:03:16.000 incubator the eggs are kept warm. A week goes by every 00:03:16.000 --> 00:03:21.001 day the eggs are turned. The farmer now takes an egg to see whether a chick is 00:03:21.001 --> 00:03:28.000 beginning to form in it. Inside the week old egg at the top we see a black speck 00:03:28.000 --> 00:03:34.001 which is the little chicks eye. And now nearly three weeks after this egg was put 00:03:34.001 --> 00:03:38.001 into the incubator the tiny chick is almost ready to come out. 00:03:43.000 --> 00:03:48.001 The chick begins pecking a hole through the shell with its sharp beak. 00:03:50.001 --> 00:03:57.001 Now the shell is well broken and the baby chick rests. The shell is almost 00:03:57.001 --> 00:04:02.001 ready to break apart. Another rest before breaking through. See the beak the 00:04:02.001 --> 00:04:09.001 chick uses in pecking its way out. Nearly out at last but still 00:04:09.001 --> 00:04:14.001 very weak. It's hard work getting all the way out. Some of these other chicks 00:04:14.001 --> 00:04:18.001 have been out of their shells for a while and they run about in the incubator 00:04:18.001 --> 00:04:25.001 drawer. This chick took all day to peck its way out of the shell. A 00:04:25.001 --> 00:04:29.001 day more in the warm incubator for the chicks to dry out and farmer Brown is 00:04:29.001 --> 00:04:33.001 ready to take them across to the 00:04:38.000 --> 00:04:43.001 inside the brooder house are the baby chicks covered with fuzzy yellow down. 00:04:46.000 --> 00:04:50.001 These chicks are a week old. White wing feathers are growing in place of the down 00:04:50.001 --> 00:04:57.000 and these have been out of the eggs for two weeks. Their tail feathers 00:04:57.000 --> 00:05:03.001 are 00:05:04.000 --> 00:05:10.001 chickens and almost grown up. Some farmers let a hen sit 00:05:10.001 --> 00:05:16.000 on eggs until they hatch into chicks. Mother hen keeps her baby chicks warm 00:05:16.000 --> 00:05:19.001 out from under mother's wing. 00:05:22.000 --> 00:05:28.000 And now the mother and her chicks come off the nest to eat. These are Plymouth 00:05:28.000 --> 00:05:35.000 rock chickens. Farmer Brown keeps ducks on his poultry farm 00:05:35.000 --> 00:05:42.000 too. Hidden in the middle of this bush is a mother duck sitting 00:05:42.000 --> 00:05:49.000 on her eggs. Can you see her? Off for something to eat. Her eggs are 00:05:49.000 --> 00:05:55.001 well hidden while she is away. Nearby in another bush is a mother duck and her 00:05:55.001 --> 00:06:02.000 newly hatched ducklings. She leads her ducklings out of their nest. Two of the 00:06:02.000 --> 00:06:08.001 eggs haven't hatched. Mother duck calls to her babies to follow her into the 00:06:08.001 --> 00:06:14.000 water. The bank is high and the ducklings are small but they clamber down as fast 00:06:14.000 --> 00:06:21.000 as their weak little legs will carry them. They don't need any lessons in 00:06:21.000 --> 00:06:27.001 swimming but they still swim close to their mother. A duck 00:06:27.001 --> 00:06:30.001 has webbed feet which make good paddles for swimming. 00:06:33.000 --> 00:06:37.000 These ducklings have no feathers yet only soft fluffy down. 00:06:40.001 --> 00:06:46.001 Mother duck scoops up food from the water in her broad flat bill. 00:06:48.000 --> 00:06:53.000 The ducklings too dive down for bits of food from the bottom of the pond. Here 00:06:53.000 --> 00:06:59.000 they find seeds and plants and tiny bugs to eat. Inside their flat bills are 00:06:59.000 --> 00:07:04.000 ridges which hold the food back while the water strains out. Here we see the 00:07:04.000 --> 00:07:09.001 ridges along the edges of a duck's bill. Who would know that this was the 00:07:09.001 --> 00:07:15.001 ducklings first day in the water but until their feathers grow they must not stay 00:07:15.001 --> 00:07:21.000 in long. They are glad to go out now and waddle after their 00:07:21.000 --> 00:07:23.000 mother through the grassy meadow. 00:07:28.001 --> 00:07:35.000 This duckling will get lost but he hears his mother call and runs to catch up 00:07:35.000 --> 00:07:42.000 with her. Now for a feast. After mother duck makes sure all her babies are 00:07:42.000 --> 00:07:46.001 here she scoops up the grain with her broad bill although it's better for feeding 00:07:46.001 --> 00:07:53.001 in water. Her webbed feet too are better for swimming than for walking. Time for 00:07:53.001 --> 00:07:59.001 mother duck and her ducklings to waddle back to their nest. So following closely 00:07:59.001 --> 00:08:04.000 behind their mother they go back to their well-hidden nest in the bush again. 00:08:06.000 --> 00:08:13.000 On another nest in Farmer Brown's barn is a family of geese. Father Gander has 00:08:13.000 --> 00:08:19.001 been watching over them ever since they first hatched. Now for something to eat. 00:08:21.001 --> 00:08:28.001 Baby goslings are bigger than ducklings and baby chicks. These goslings are two 00:08:28.001 --> 00:08:34.000 weeks old and they know their way about. Over the garden path 00:08:34.000 --> 00:08:35.001 they go to the green 00:08:39.000 --> 00:08:44.001 meadow. Father Gander and mother goose watch as the goslings have their dinner. 00:08:45.001 --> 00:08:51.000 They peck the fresh green blades of grass although already two weeks old the 00:08:51.000 --> 00:08:56.001 goslings feathers have not yet begun to grow. Geese 00:08:56.001 --> 00:08:58.000 have longer necks than ducks. 00:08:59.000 --> 00:09:06.000 Gander hears something. He hears a turkey gobbler 00:09:06.000 --> 00:09:12.001 who flew over the fence to the turkey yard. Only a small 00:09:12.001 --> 00:09:16.000 flock of turkey cocks and hens are kept on this farm. 00:09:28.000 --> 00:09:33.000 The Farmer Brown keeps a large flock of younger turkeys and feeds them well so 00:09:33.000 --> 00:09:35.001 they will grow large for Thanksgiving dinners. 00:09:39.000 --> 00:09:45.000 These baby turkeys just out of their eggshells in the incubator are being 00:09:45.000 --> 00:09:52.000 fattened for Christmas dinners. It is early evening and the chickens 00:09:52.000 --> 00:09:56.001 have already gone to roost. Farmer Brown closes the chicken house door. 00:09:59.000 --> 00:10:05.000 The gander watches over his family on their nest in the barn. Mother Duck and her 00:10:05.000 --> 00:10:12.000 ducklings are safe in their nest well hidden in the bush. The turkeys are the 00:10:12.000 --> 00:10:17.000 very last to go to sleep. When it gets dark they go to their roosts in the 00:10:17.000 --> 00:10:21.001 branches of trees and all is quiet on the farm for the night.